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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
VV
Universal Screening
Standard deviation
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
2. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Letter naming Chart
Analytic
Orthography
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
3. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Phonemic Awareness
Dyslexia
Phonological Awareness
Sound Symbol Association
4. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Battery
ADHD
Stanine Scores
Raw score
5. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Three Layers of Language
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Syllable Instruction
Towre
6. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Phoneme
Standard deviation
Composite Score
Open Syllable
7. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Fluency
8. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Breve
Derived Score
Percentile/ percentile rank
Standard score
9. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Comprehension
Synthetic Instruction
Impulsivity
Combination
10. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Whole Language
Phonological Awareness
Vr
Phoneme
11. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Orthography
Reading Comprehension Support
Reliability
Modification
12. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Middle English
Chall's Stage 1
Keith Stanovich
Vr
13. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Cognitive Assessment
Chall's Stage 5
Standard Scores
Rate
14. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Age equivalent
Impulsivity
Rate
Quadrigraph
15. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Funding
Syllable Instruction
Accommodation
Six basic types of syllables
16. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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17. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Analytic
Macron
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Tilde
18. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
GORT
James Hinshelwood
Reading Comprehension Support
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
19. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Percentile
Vowel
The Norman Conquest
Six basic types of syllables
20. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Trigraph
Analytic
Consonant Digraph
James Hinshelwood
21. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Vr
Chall's Stage 2
Keith Stanovich
Standard Scores
22. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Texas Education Code 38.003
Achievement test
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Morphology
23. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Breve
Consonant
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Auditory Learners
24. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Percentile/ percentile rank
ESL
Analytic
Digraph
25. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Matthew Effect
Reliability
Multisensory
26. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Composite Score
Greek layer of language
Diphthong
Criterion referenced tests
27. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Vr
VAKT
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Mathew Effect
28. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Samuel T. Orton
Modification
Old English
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
29. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Syllable
Diagnostic Teaching
Multi-Sensory Approach
Cedilla
30. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Trigraph
Visual Processing
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Syllable Instruction
31. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Direct Instruction
Matthew Effect
Old English
Syntax
32. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Standard Scores
Prefix
[-'le
33. Academic Language Therapy Association
Mathew Effect
ALTA
Base Word
Percentile/ percentile rank
34. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
RTI
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonological Awareness
Base Word
35. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Suffix
Prefix
Synthetic Instruction
Digraph
36. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Grapheme
Visual Learners
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
37. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Age equivalent
Reliability
Texas Education Code 28.06
Accuracy
38. Closed syllable
Open Syllable
Consonant Digraph
VC
Funding
39. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Syllable
Auditory Learners
MSLE
Three Layers of Language
40. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Auditory Learners
Consonant Digraph
Consonant
Vowel Digraph
41. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
IEP
NICHD
Chall's Stage 1
42. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Reliability
Cognition
Morpheme
Universal Screening
43. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Sight Words
James Hinshelwood
Norm-referenced tests
Breve
44. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Whole Language
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Combination
Pre-English
45. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
VC
Vowel Digraph
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Standardized test
46. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Morpheme
Joe Torgesen
Open Syllable
Tactile
47. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Tactile
Standard score
Derived Score
Modern English
48. Whole body learning
Frank Smith
MSL
Kinesthetic
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
49. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Prefix
Consonant
Multisensory
Keith Stanovich
50. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
MSLE
RTI
Great Vowel Shift
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